Production on Jubilee Field shuts down for 15 days

Beginning, today February 3, 2017 oil production on the Jubilee Field will be shut down for 15 days, to allow for an interconnection with the Tweneboa, Enyera and Ntomme (TEN) operations.

The interconnection between the country’s first and second operating oil and gas fields will enable evacuation and export of additional natural gas from the TEN fields through the 58-km offshore pipeline of the Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) to its onshore Atuabo Gas Processing Plant.

Executive Director of KITE Ishmael Agyekumhene speaking to Accra-based Starr FM said "If you listen to what the utilities and the power producers are telling us, they are making enough contingencies to ensure that the light is on for those next fifteen days.

"Knowing very well that we have known since last year that in February they are going to shut down the FPSO, I will be very surprised if it brings about Dumsor. I’m sure they have made enough provision to deal with what we are going to go through. I don’t expect that we go through any form of outages".

The shutdown will lead to immediate curtailment of production and export of natural gas from the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah to Atuabo and subsequent curtailment of lean gas from Atuabo to the Aboadze Thermal Enclave, which presently relies on gas from Ghana Gas to generate electricity.

Aboadze has been relying on Atuabo since November 2014 to supply lean gas to generate electricity from its thermal plants and there are fears that the inter-connection exercise could result in 'dumsor' within the period.